Hurstville Chinese Restaurant – Lunch
‘when a restaurant is packed with chinese customers, you know its gonna be good’
My family has a cantonese background and we’ve been coming here for years thanks to their cantonese cuisine. We’d usually come here for dinner which is always packed out so always make a reservation! Stand out dishes for me is their awesome steamed FISH!! (that’s another story). Outside the restaurant, you’ll notice articles published in the paper and a couple of awards they’ve won over the years and good on them for keeping up with the quality of food for a long time!
Hurstville is one of those areas which i forget about that exists. If you’ve never been there before, its a mini chinatown. Due to the crappy eastern suburbs flood / horrible rainy weather, my sister and I took my parents out to one of their favourite soup lunches which was not only soothing, but also cheap and comforting during the dull, cold and miserable wet winter weather.
Shallot Pancake
Shallot pancake is different to the more common ones which is flat and cut into pizza triangles. This shallot pancake held the shape of a crossiant and sliced into thirds (you may have seen this on yum cha trolley).Crunchy and fragile on the outside, while the inside had many thin layers which was soo soft, lite and delicious. I couldn’t get enough of it!!!
Soup for under $10
Soups are really really filling that we’re always left super full. The dumplings are huge and they give you a good portion that you wont be leaving hungry. I think all their soups / congee are $8.90 (from memory) but to be safe i’ll round it up to $10 LOL.
Great thing I love about their soups is that, the wontons / gow gee are really tasty, they’re big, and most importantly.. they don’t over fill the bowl with too many noodles like other soup places do to scum on the fillings.
Combination (pork mince, prawn and chinese mushroom) gow gee
I didn’t want noodles in my soup mainly because their soups are sooo filling. (I can never finish a bowl of soup to myself).Dumplings are really big! (10 dumplings all up)! It took me a while to figure out how I was going to eat it because of its size. I managed to eat it eventually and boy I was stuffed!
Beef brisket & wonton noodle soup
This seems to be the ultimate favourite with the family. 90% of us seem to order this and come here for this particular soup. Its one of those dishes which is loved too much to choose something different.Its got super tender beef which melts in your mouth and jiggly tendons (i’m no fan of tendons which is why i don’t order it) but hey the beef is bomb, the wontons are huge and its great to know they don’t over fill bowl with too many noodles.
Hurstville Chinese Restaurant
184 Forest Rd,
Hurstville NSW 2220
P: (02) 9586 0828?
Heheh I definitely agree with telling a good place by the amount of Chinese eaters! That meat looks so tender and juicy!
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I’ve heard that Hurstville has a number of decent Chinese restaurants. This looks like no exception.
The beef brisket looks fantastic! Not at all surprised that it’s popular
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Ughhh that beef brisket looks so good!! Totally the type of thing that I’ve been craving with this cold weather. Shallot pancake is the best! That one looks really light and crisp
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Being new to Sydney I’ve got to say that I’ve not heard of Hurstville.
That shallot pancake looks like heaven, so light & crispy. Serious yummers!
Being a huge dumpling lover I might need to try the gow gee
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Your photos are just too awesommmee!! I want beeff brisketttt and sallot pancakey *droooolll droooll*
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Ooh I love wontons too! And I would much rather have just wontons and no noodles! And that beef brisket looks so good and hearty… I need to go to Hurstville more, I have no idea what’s there@!!
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Hey, I’ve been eating here with my family for years too! At least 15 years now…perhaps we may have bumped into each other there before?
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looks and sounds good. gotta love a crispy crunchy shallot pancake and the wontons do look very noice. i haven’t tried this place before but sounds like a should. :-)
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My family goes to Hurstville Chinese all the time – and yes, it’s always packed with Chinese people. I’ve only been there for dinner, though, and the food then is different. I’d love to try that beef tendon, it looks gorgeous!
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Well, since our favourite Chinese/Malaysian restaurant in Hurstville closed about 18 months ago, we never eat out in Hurstville anymore (even though we live here). I have been to this restaurant in the past though, but I didn’t know they did a good Wonton Noodle Soup. I think I need to venture back….. I have been craving that soup since we got back from Hong Kong.
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